Two years ago this fall, Mount Diablo was smoking from a 3,000-acre fire. Now the mountain is back, as Joan Hamilton writes in the October issue of Bay Nature. Plus: tule elk and cows struggle to coexist in Point Reyes; a hike through the ancient oaks of Russian Ridge; Northern California spiders as a window into the tangled web of spider evolution; sandhill cranes, Mount Tam citizen science, and more!
Cover photo by Sally Rae Kimmel
